How is your battery life? (and why is mine so bad)

[KittyKatta]

Im curious on how iPhone veterans are rating the battery life in the latest version. I had a 3G for a few months but that seemed to last much longer so I'm looking for advice on what I may be doing wrong with the 4S because my battery life seems to be very poor.

So far I'm getting a 10% battery hit per hour despite little or no usage. Since Im fairly new to this then I'm looking for what I should turn off in order to make it through a solid day with moderate use. Ive started with PhotoStream and lowering brightness but what else is there that is a battery hog?

 

[HighTopFade]

I had mine for a mere 24 hours. It seems to drain rather quickly. Maybe because I'm spending a lot of time with Siri. Charging time also seems longer.

 

[bendrumin]

I turned off Siri and going to try using it tomorrow and see how long it lasts. It seems that Siri might be a big battery hog.

 

[RKilbane20]

Everytime a new iPhone comes out people complain about battery life. It's because everyone is using all day because it's new. Also turn off notifications or push or whatever you don't need to save battery life.

 

[Reach9]

I turned off Siri and going to try using it tomorrow and see how long it lasts. It seems that Siri might be a big battery hog.

Exactly.

Guys, the iPhone 4S is super fast. I keep Settings in my Multitasking bar at all times, if i want to turn on Siri, i just quickly go there.

As soon as i turned on Siri, i went from 68% to 66% in a matter of a minute.
I noticed a better battery performance after i disabled Siri.

I also tried turning off all the iCloud features today, i'll see how my battery is tomorrow after a full charge. iCloud is pretty useless to me at the moment, only thing i use is Find My iPhone (just incase i lose this).

 

[Oppressed]

Turning Siri off still causes my phone to drain 1% about every 3 minutes while running something like Facebook.

 

[KentuckyHouse]

After a full charge overnight, I'm extremely impressed with the battery life today on my 4S. Amazed, actually. I've got Siri on, notifications on, push off (I use BoxCar for my notifications and email) and this is what I've got...

Usage: 3 hours, 50 minutes
Standby: 11 hours, 36 minutes
Battery % remaining: 60%

I've played about 20 levels of Angry Birds today, sent a ton of texts, done a little web surfing, and downloaded a few apps that I still hadn't put back on my phone. Oh, and I did a manual backup to iCloud earlier.

I'm impressed, that's for sure.

 

[protobiont]

Mine seems more or less normal. I'm using it a lot, have siri, location services, medium brightness, etc. 12% battery life, 8hours of usage, 14 hrs 13 min of standby.

 

[Eso]

Everytime a new iPhone comes out people complain about battery life. It's because everyone is using all day because it's new.

...and that exlains how the OP said he is losing 10% per hour with "little to no usage" how?

This should cover what's going on and how to fix it:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13628608/

 

[Roofy.]

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Mines pretty horrible TBH.

29% battery
3h 27min
Push on for most apps, Siri on, iCloud on, push email every hour. I know that's gonna drain battery but I don't buy a full fledged phone to disable half of its features. My old 4 was much better

 

[Patriot24]

Just wait until you've had a week of normal usage before you panic. After this initial weekend of heavy use, we will go back to our normal routines. Then you can judge battery life.

 

[Reach9]

Do you guys think that running the battery out until the phone shuts off, and charging it up to the max, without usage, will fix the battery issue?

 

[bjb.butler]

My battery life has been fine. I'm coming from android, so I'm more than impressed.
I'm at 71%
Usage 2 Hours, 17 minutes
Standby 5 Hours, 2 minutes

Do you guys think that running the battery out until the phone shuts off, and charging it up to the max, without usage, will fix the battery issue?

I don't see why it would, but I guess it doesn't hurt to try. I don't know your phone/situation, but basically the two key things seem to be:
-Don't use location based reminders
-Don't restore from a backup; setup as a new phone.

 

[saberahul]

In my experience, everytime I get a new iPhone - the first week the battery sucks (even if I don't do anything). After that, it acts normal. Maybe the battery takes time to warm up... who knows.